Upgraded PC and want to Capture

[orenma]

I upgraded my PC.
Please look at my configuration ( The left butten )and tell me if it is good for capturing, editing etc.
TIA.

[Craig Tucker]

Hardware wise you are fine, you may want to consider upgrading your OS to one than supports the NTFS filesystem though or you will be limited to filesizes of 4GB

[orenma]

Hardware wise you are fine, you may want to consider upgrading your OS to one than supports the NTFS filesystem though or you will be limited to filesizes of 4GB

Craig Tucker, I have the ULEAD Video Studio 7.0 and that is what they wrote on there site about capturing:

"VideoStudio 7.0 overcomes the 4GB video file
limitation in Windows 98 and some Windows 2000 systems (due to
the FAT32 file structure), letting you capture video files as large as
your hard drive will allow (for DV Type1, DV Type2 and MPEG
formats)."

[i_am_dave]

Hi,

If you upgrade your OS, you might want to consider making your 80Gb drive you primary and loading the OS and all programs on it. Then purchase a second 80Gb drive for your video work.

20Gb is really kind of small if you go with XP. XP likes takes a lot of room, especially if you let it keep a lot of system restore checkpoints around.

You can get an XP Home upgrade for <$100 and an additional 80Gb drive for < $100.

So for a couple hundred $$ you can really make a great video system.

P.S. You might want to buy an enclosure for the 20Gb drive and use it as external storage.

[orenma]

I am goging to stay with my WIN 98 for now.
Also, I think that 80GB Stand alone HardDisk is enough for my use.
Thanks anyway.

[gmatov]

My MSI card, MSIPVS cap program under 98 splits the cap files at 4063MB.
My Pinnacle stopped at3.99gig, and would go no farther.
I haven't capped that large yet, no idea how it rejoins them, unless through TMPGenc or another converter. Have to try it

[FulciLives]

I am goging to stay with my WIN 98 for now.
Also, I think that 80GB Stand alone HardDisk is enough for my use.
Thanks anyway.

PLEASE do yourself the favor of upgrading to WinXP and the NTFS file system. You will be sorry when you are trying to work on a large project and keep hitting the 4GB barrior. Also you will get better quality mpeg-2 encoding with either CCE or TMPGEnc than with Video Studio 7.0 but you will have to limit your file size to less than 4GB

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[gmatov]

I have to agree with Fulci, I've just been going so well with 98, no reason to UGrade.
Another thread mentioned a 160 at Staples, 70 bucks after rebate and coupon. Just bought 1, am formatting right now, am setting as Pri Master, and installing Win2k, SP3.
Hope it works at least as well as 98 has. Have to re-install everything, but too much garbage on the 98 drive, anyhow.
BTW, at my Staples store, it is a 8meg cache, 7200, with an included Promise ATA133 card. You can't beat that deal with a stick. Gotta go get another one by Saturday.

[FulciLives]

People who live in Pittsburgh know what's up 8)

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[gmatov]

Fulci,
Where in the hell is Pgh PA in the USA? I'm down by Irwin, and work in W. Mifflin. Talk at you sometime long as you don't look like your avatar. You're an ugly mother, if that's you. And don't be eatin' me. I'm totally averse to that.

[Bob W]

IMO if you are going to be doing any video work or capturing then you need to be running winXP with plenty of hard drive space formated for the NTFS file system.

[fmctm1sw]

People who live in Pittsburgh know what's up 8)

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

I'll wholeheartedly second that. I'll also second the NTFS idea you gave.
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[Richard_G]

Getting back to the original question, I'd say your system is fine. If you are happy with Win98 then stick with it. I did for a long time, my system was stable and worked and I saw no reason to screw that up by changing operating system for the sake of it. My original video machine was a 600MHz Athlon (slot A type) with a pair of 40Gb drives and I was doing analogue captures at about 12Mb/s! I just had to do lots of them to keep file sizes down.

As long as you are aware of the file size limitation (even though your software should be capable of splitting the files, it might not work as well as it should and cause problems), you know what to blame when it all goes to pieces! As you are capturing DV, you won't hit 4Gb until about 18 minutes anyway, so you can always keep your captures down to 15 minutes at a time then edit them back together afterwards. Even if you tell VideoStudio to save your finished video as DVD quality mpeg2, you'll get nearly 2 hours before you go over 4Gb.

NTFS means that you have one less thing to bear in mind as a possible problem but it is only essential if you intend capturing an entire DV tape at a time. Capture bit by bit and you won't have a problem.